Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 7
- 903 - Birth of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
- 1810 - Birth of Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894)
- 1810 - Birth of Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
- 1903 - Birth of Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1977 - Death of Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906)
- 1978 - Death of Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
- 1998 - Death of Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)